Mathematics

Richard S. Laugesen - Vita

Ph.D. Dissertation: "Extremal problems involving logarithmic and Green capacity", 1993
Ph.D. Advisor: Albert Baernstein II, Washington University in St. Louis

Employment History

• 2001-present: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Associate Professor
• Spring 2000: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study
• 1997-2001: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Assistant Professor
• 1996-97: Johns Hopkins University - Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1995-96: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor
• 1994-95: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (on leave from Michigan)
• 1993-94: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor

External Funding and Fellowships

• 1994-2001, 2002-2005: NSF Awards
• 2003: Maclaurin Fellowship, New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• 2005: Visiting Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury

Conferences Co-organized

• Analysis Conference at Washington University, May 2005
• AIM Workshop on Low Eigenvalues of Laplace and Schrodinger Operators, May 2006
• Oberwolfach Workshop on Low Eigenvalues of Laplace and Schrodinger Operators, February 2009
• AMS Special Session on "Time, Scale and Frequency Methods in Harmonic Analysis", March 2009
• Illinois/Missouri Applied Harmonic Analysis Seminar, 2006-2010 (with support from NSF and IMA)

Teaching Awards

• Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois (2002-2003)
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois (2002-2003)
• University of Illinois "Incomplete List of Teachers Rated Excellent", in the following semesters:
  Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009.

Teaching Experience

• Scaling, self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics
• Calculus of Variations
• Probability (undergraduate, and one semester of graduate)
• Harmonic Analysis
• PDEs (undergraduate, and two semesters of graduate)
• ODEs with Applications, Systems of ODEs and Dynamics
• Fundamental Mathematics (for math majors)
• Advanced Calculus
• Advanced Mathematics for Engineers
• Linear Spaces and Matrix Theory
• Calculus I, II, III, including "Harvard" and "Mathematica" approaches
• Precalculus I and II

Notable Service

• Executive Committee of the Department, 2004-2006 (including hiring, salary reviews, strategic planning)
• Honors Committee, 2001-2007
• Space Committee (chairman), 2007-2009

Invited Lectures

• 2009: U. of Kentucky, Conference on Twenty Years of Wavelets (DePaul U., Chicago), Conference on Time-Frequency (Strobl, Austria)
• 2008: New Mexico State U., U. of Canterbury, Technical U. of Denmark, Symposium on Computational Harmonic Analysis (U. Missouri, St. Louis), 7th Australia - New Zealand Mathematics Convention
• 2007: Conference on Trends in Harmonic Analysis (Strobl, Austria), SIAM Special Session (Memphis), Illinois/Missouri Applied Harmonic Analysis Seminar, Vanderbilt U.
• 2006: International Conference on Harmonic Analysis (Merlo, Argentina), Dalhousie U., U.S.-Croatian Workshop on Wavelets (Washington U. in St. Louis)
• 2005: U. Missouri at Columbia, Conference on Modern Methods of Time-Frequency Analysis (Austria), Washington U. in St. Louis (Loeb Undergraduate Lecture), U. Minnesota
• 2004: Washington U. in St. Louis, Iowa State U., Workshop on Harmonic and Functional Analyses of Wavelets (Singapore), U. Basel, U. Autonoma de Barcelona, National U. of Singapore, U. of Canterbury, U. of Auckland
• 2003: U. of Auckland, Massey U., Victoria U., U. of Otago, U. of Toronto, Indiana U., Michigan State U.
• 2002: Oklahoma State U., Washington U. in St. Louis
• 2001: Texas Tech U., U. of Basel, Oberwolfach Conference "Elliptic and Parabolic Problems of Higher Order", U. of Canterbury, Indiana U.
• 2000: Washington U. in St. Louis, U. of Missouri
• 1999: Edinburgh Conference "Dynamics of Thin Fluid Films", Oklahoma State U., Northwestern U.
• 1998: Wabash seminar, Purdue U., U. of Virginia, Washington U., Wright State U., Oberwolfach Conference "Geometric Questions in Partial Differential Equations".
• 1997: Vanderbilt Conference on Differential Equations, U. of Illinois (Urbana), U. of Illinois (Chicago), Northwestern U., U. of Missouri, Georgia Tech.
• 1996: Rice U., Washington U., Georgetown U., George Washington U., U. of Arkansas, U. of Maryland at College Park, Purdue U.
• 1996 MSRI Conference "Sharp Inequalities", Mt. Holyoke Meeting "Optimization Methods in PDE"
• 1996 Oberwolfach Conference "Geometric Function Theory"
• 1995: Wayne State U., Technion in Haifa, Cornell U., Brown U., SUNY at Stony Brook, Institute for Advanced Study
• 1994: Florida State U., Washington U., U. of Auckland (New Zealand), U. of Canterbury (New Zealand)
• 1993: SUNY at Stony Brook, U. of Auckland (New Zealand)
• 1992: U. of Michigan, Purdue U., U. of Illinois at Urbana, Justus-Liebig Universitat (Germany), York U. (England)

• AMS Special Sessions in 2009-1994: Urbana, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Eugene, Pittsburgh, Lawrence, Birmingham, South Bend, Winston--Salem, Chicago, Louisville, Columbia (MO), Chattanooga, Orlando, Hartford, Cincinnati

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